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Order Code: CDA67728
CDA67728
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CDA67728
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RAVEL Songs. Gerald Finley, Julius Drake. Hyperion
label: Hyperion Records
format: CD

Composer: (click for full listing)
released: 01/06/09
awards:
• Gramophone Editors Choice - August 2009
• MDT Best Seller - June 2009

MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937)

Songs

 

Histoires naturelles 1 Le paon [5'09]

2 Le grillon [3'32]

3 Le cygne [3'24]

4 Le martin-pêcheur [3'30]

5 La pintade [3'33]

6 Ronsard à son âme [2'46]

Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

7 Chanson romanesque [2'09]

8 Chanson épique [2'47]

9 Chanson à boire [1'58]

10 Un grand sommeil noir [4'47]

11 Les grands vents venus d’outremer [2'06]

12 Sur l’herbe [2'16]

Chants populaires

13 Chanson française [2'08]

14 Chanson italienne [1'24]

15 Chanson hébraïque [5'04]

16 Chanson écossaise [3'14]

17 Noël des jouets [3'15]

Deux épigrammes de Clément Marot

18 D’Anne qui m’a jecta de la neige [2'50]

19 D’Anne jouant de l’espinette [1'44]

Cinq mélodies populaires grecques

20 Le réveil de la mariée [1'25]

21 Là-bas, vers l’église [1'41]

22 Quel galant m’est comparable? [0'55]

23 Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques [2'42]

24 Tout gai! [0'56]

Deux mélodies hébraïques

25 Kaddisch [4'27]

26 L’énigme éternelle [1'42]

 

Gerald Finley - baritone

Julius Drake - piano

 

The award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake continue their musical explorations with this beautiful and thought-provoking disc. Gerald Finley’s lustrous tones, extraordinary gift for characterisation, and direct, unaffected utterance make him an ideal and revelatory performer of Ravel’s songs.

 

These works, somewhat under-appreciated in the composer’s oeuvre, demonstrate the endless variety and vast emotional scope of Ravel’s musical sphere. Charming folk-song settings contrast with the almost surrealist world of Histoires naturelles, which caused outrage at its first performance. Yet this cycle contains some of Ravel’s most dreamily beautiful music: the still, crystalline ‘music of silence’ created in Le martin-pêcheur. In the words of Roger Nichols, who provides the fascinating booklet notes, ‘From the sepulchral gloom of Un grand sommeil noir to the final exclamation ‘Je bois / À la joie’ …, Ravel’s songs embrace a whole world’.

 

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